60 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2021REVIEWS TESTED: APPLE M1 CHIP
MacBook Pro M1.cores. This week Microsoft released its beta
64-bit support and let’s just say it doesn’t
perform nearly as well as Rosetta 2 does on
Apple’s M1 chip. Our Surface Pro X versus
MacBook M1 comparison (go.pcworld.com/
sxm1) contains much deeper information, but
Arm on Windows has never looked worse.BOTTOM LINE
In today’s technology circles, many people
have retreated into their corners, with
irrational fans choosing to always cheer for
their team and give no quarter to
competitors—even if the other team won.
That shouldn’t be any rational person’s
perspective because ultimately, these are just
companies looking to take your money. It’s
also not classy.
With that said, we think Apple should beapplauded for what it has pulled off with the
new M1 chip. It offers truly amazing
performance that looks like it can carry the
Mac down the fork of the road away from the
world of x86. You can arguably say Macs built
on the new M1 will be worthy of the heritage
of the Macintosh name, which hasn’t been
the case over the last few years. With the M 1
and Apple’s future iterations, heads can be
held high again.
Yes, there will be faster chips from Apple.
And we can tell you there will be faster chips
from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia too. There might
even be faster chips from Qualcomm.
That’s ultimately all good for consumers.
We benefit from competition among worthy
products—and you can certainly say Apple’s
MacBook Pro M1 is a worthy product (go.
pcworld.com/glrv).